Louvinia Jordan's oral history interview, in which she describes her experiences as a cryptographic clerk in the United States Army Signal Corps.
Louvinia Kerns Jordan was born on a farm in North Carolina in 1922. During the Second World War, Jordan became a cryptographic clerk or “codebreaker” in the Signal Corps and deciphered top secret Japanese codes. After the war she married a veteran of the Pacific War and worked as a bookkeeper for a newspaper.
At the time of the interview, Jordan lived in Rome, Georgia. She recorded her oral history interview at Kennesaw State University in May 2015.
Louvinia Jordan Interview, 2015-12-01, Legacy Series Oral History Program, 2013-, KSU/14/05/03/001, Museum of History and Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University.
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